Quotes from Harper Lee

El hecho de que hayamos perdido cien años antes de empezar no es motivo para que no intentemos vencer.

Try fighting with your head for a change . . it's a good one, even if it does resist learning -Atticus

Some folks don't like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with 'em, I don't care if they don't like it. I do say I don't care if they don't like it, right enough - but I don't say the hell with 'em, see?

Thing is, foot-washers think women are a sin in definition.

Herbert Jemson was Methodist of the whole cloth: he was notoriously short on theology and a mile long on good works.

Jem scooped up an armful of dirt, patted it into a mound on which he added another load, and another until he had constructed a torso. Jem, I ain't never heard of a nigger snowman, I said.

Baby, you'll have to grow some more before this makes sense to you, but your daddy and your mamma loved each other something fierce, and when you love somebody like that, Miss Scout, why that's what you want to do. That's what everybody wants to do when they love like that. They want to get married, they want to kiss and hug and carry on and have babies all the time.

To the Richmond Leader in 1966 when the school board banned her novel: "Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that 'To Kill a Mockingbird' spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is 'immoral' has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.

They fought to preserve their identity. Their political identity, their personal identity.

The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the churchyard-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's Cologne, Brown's Mule, peppermint, and lilac talcum.

I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?" "The way you tell it, it is.

Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. I

Well, in the first place, you stopped to gimme a chance to tell you my side of it- you just lit right into me. When Jem an' I fuss Atticus doesn't ever listen to just Jem's side of it, he hears mine too

By the time I'm ready to get married I'll be ninety and then it'll be too late.

His food doesn't stick going down, does it?

Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to...

Mut heißt: von vornherein wissen, dass man geschlagen ist, und trotzdem den Kampf - ganz gleich, um was es geht - aufnehmen und ihn durchstehen. Man gewinnt selten, aber zuweilen gelingt es.

Keberanian tidak selalu identik dengan lelaki bersenapan. Keberanian (sejati) adalah saat kau tahu kau akan kalah sebelum memulai, tetapi kau tetap memulai dan merampungkannya, apa pun yang terjadi. Kau jarang menang, tetapi kadang-kadang kau bisa menang.

Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we're paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.' 'Who?' Aunt Alexandra never knew she was echoing her twelve-year-old nephew. 'The handful of people in this town who that that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think, when they look at a Negro, there but for the Lord's kindness am I.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. —Charles Lamb

A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

Tidak Jem, kukira hanya ada satu jenis manusia. Manusia. (Jem) Pikirku juga begitu, saat aku seusiamu. Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk saling membenci?